I'll begin this thread like this...There are a lot of extremely talented makers out there today. My pocket knife that comes really close to being perfect is probably a Tomes large back-locking trapper. The inperfection??? Well really none with the knife itself. I can't find a damn thing wrong with it except it's too big to carry in your pocket comfortably. I'm sure with a more discerning eye and a jeweler's loupe there's an imperfection. It just doesn't show easily.
My other custom folders are all regular slipjoints either in trapper or gunstock form built by Bill Ruple, Don Morrow, and the virtually unknown team of Kiser/Hampton who I think are an uncle and nephew team.
It's time to try someting new and different (at least to me). By this time tommorow I should be in possesion of a spankin' new Eugene Shadley knife that's kind of a wierd one. It's Kind of a stockman/trapper like jack knife. In other words it's got a stockman frame with equal length clip and spey blades that both pivot from the same end.
Anyway I'm looking forward to it. I think there's still a picture of it at Gary Levine's website, www.levineknives.com/m.pl/maker.htm/280 if you want a looksee.
My other custom folders are all regular slipjoints either in trapper or gunstock form built by Bill Ruple, Don Morrow, and the virtually unknown team of Kiser/Hampton who I think are an uncle and nephew team.
It's time to try someting new and different (at least to me). By this time tommorow I should be in possesion of a spankin' new Eugene Shadley knife that's kind of a wierd one. It's Kind of a stockman/trapper like jack knife. In other words it's got a stockman frame with equal length clip and spey blades that both pivot from the same end.
Anyway I'm looking forward to it. I think there's still a picture of it at Gary Levine's website, www.levineknives.com/m.pl/maker.htm/280 if you want a looksee.
